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Lwando Xaso on writing ‘Made in South Africa’ By Lwando Xaso - 15 February 2021 This book was inspired by a deep desire to be in conversation with the country that has defined who I am.     For so long I was a passive participant in the affairs of my country. I was an observer too timid to speak up. Too doubtful of my own opinions and deferring to those who I thought knew best. I held back, thinking it was not my place to contribute to our national discourse. I thought one had to have earned their voice through a lifetime of lived experiences.

Dr Vera Wülfing-Leckie obituary After the nuclear incident at Chernobyl, Vera Wülfing-Leckie came to see her future as being in the southern hemisphere After the nuclear incident at Chernobyl, Vera Wülfing-Leckie came to see her future as being in the southern hemisphere RossLeckie Mon 8 Feb 2021 15.05 EST Last modified on Mon 8 Feb 2021 15.07 EST Vera Wülfing-Leckie, my former wife, who has died aged 66, was a lover of Africa, a homeopath and a translator. Vera’s father had been a Russian prisoner-of-war. Her mother had fled before the advancing Russians from what became Eas...

Joanne A top barrister has said she will not withdraw from a legal case defending traditional marriage, despite receiving “pressure in the form of abuse and threats”. Dinah Rose QC is representing the Government of the Cayman Islands as it seeks to uphold the definition of marriage as being only between one man and one woman. Activists have claimed that Rose’s involvement makes her unfit for her role as President of Magdalen College, Oxford – a position she was appointed to last year. Case In 2018, the Cayman Islands defended its Constitution from an attempt by LGBT activists to redef...

By Jemma Slingo2021-01-29T11:38:00+00:00 A leading QC has refused to step down from a case in which she will represent the government of the Cayman Islands, saying she will not succumb to ‘threats of adverse publicity’. Dinah Rose QC, a barrister at Blackstone Chambers and president of Magdalen College, Oxford, is to represent the Cayman government at an appeal before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Counsel in London in less than four weeks. The case concerns same-sex marriage in the Cayman Islands, which is a British overseas territory and a constitutional parliamentary democracy. ...

Inmates comprise a vulnerable group in society and they are meant to receive Covid-19 vaccines earlier than the general population. This has sparked debate locally and globally.